Conference, demos and discussion days on auditory feedback for motor learning, music, interacion and rehabilitation.

Thirty researchers, teachers and students attended the Legos Days on March 18th and 19th 2014 at IRCAM. We organized two days of conference, demos and discussion around diverse topics:

auditory feedbakc for motor learning, continuous and rhythmic aspects

sonification and perception of drawing movements

motor rehabiltation, with special cases of stroke patients, musicians and dystonic children

relationships between auditory and body perception in sonic surface interactions

interactive sound design and auditory object affordances

The goal of this event was to gather people working on interactive auditory feebback with different approaches and applications, which is an emerging community among people coming from computer science, audio processing, neuroscience, rehabilitation and sports.
Hands-on demos and intense discussions gace rise to news collaboration opportunities and exchange words on latest findings, experimental protocols and formalization of concepts.

3 contributions accepted at the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia in Barcelona, Spain. These works describe our current approach and technology we are developing to build motion-sound interactive systems. These systems should favor the building of an action-perception loop (motion-sound) and should facilitate the sensori-motor learning, which will be evaluated next.

E. O. Boyer, Q. Pyanet, S. Hanneton and F. Bevilacqua, “Guiding Motion using a Sound Target“. The first results of a preliminary study introducing the notion of sound-oriented task to study sensorimotor learning will be presented.

We presented two papers at the Multimodal Motor Behaviour : Impact of Sound conference, organized by Leibniz Unversität in Hannover and the ETH Institute of Thechnology of Zurich; which took place 09.31 and 10.01 in Hannover.